When I first was told we are having a person from the math department coming to lead discussion and decide on the weeks reading, I thought I was going to be in to something really boring. But as I started watching this documentary I was very surprised to find that I was being pulled in to the interesting and awesomeness of the math being used. It’s mind blowing how nature works when it comes to math. The way nature can be simplified down to a reasonably simple math equation is amazing.
One of the things I thought was the most interesting was the relationship of the ratio of the tree branches to the whole forest. This made me really think about how nature has picked this way through natural selection over and over again. Nature has figured out the simplest solution for problems it faces with a simple ratio called fractals. Another thing that really interested was the potential medical use of this discovery. How this discovery could one day be used to diagnose cancer at a earlier stage than what is now possible by finding blood vessels that do not follow the fractals. This video really opened my mind to the multiple uses of math in our society.
I think its really cool too how nature has figured out solutions using fractals. It amazing that everything is made up of them and they are so small.